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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:15:54 +1000
From: Gareth Pearce <tilps.kilm@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Interesting looking terminal emulation for cygwin
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Stephen Barclay wrote:
> Gareth Pearce wrote:
>> Stephen Barclay wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I have been using Ponderosa for a while, but something is not 100% 
>>> with thier
>>> terminal emulation, when paging up/down in editors (nano/pico etc) 
>>> there are artifact
>>> characters left on some lines..  I know this if off topic, but has 
>>> anyone else
>>> seen this? and if they have a fix .. :)
>>>
>> I have seen this with multiple terminal emulations on several 
>> platforms, I assumed it was a bug with nano/pico's base curses 
>> library or something.
>>
>> --Gareth
>>
> SecureCRT, Putty, and Cygwin SSH to the same host(s) do not exhibit 
> this problem. I have duplicated on
> RH 8.0, RH 9.0, RH FC1..
>
> I am going to play around with the terminal types and see if I can 
> figure out if it may be a termcap
> issue.... Thanks for the sanity check, making sure I wasn't going 
> crazy...
To clarify, the artifact characters I see are the remants of lines that 
were previously on the screen. 
It seems that lines don't get cleared correctly and only where new 
characters have been drawn show up correctly. 

And it only happens sometimes, which is odd.

--Gareth

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